bad_dad_brad
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I get to watching all the war stuff on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, the BBC, and I get a bit paranoid. Scud attacks, attrocities on our POWs, vast just discovered chemical factories, weird Baghdad Presidential palaces reduced to rubble by unseen cruise missles, lit oil wells creating a modern Dante's inferno, our men and women upon dust choked armored columns going in harms way, and I think, how surreal.
Then I do something to feed my paranoia. I watch an old right wing jingoistic movie, with patriotic overtones, and all the symbolism of doom. Red Dawn. They say that it was Ronald Reagon's favorite movie. Indeed, for only his stubborn stoic and stiffed lipped resolve caused the fall of Communism. It fits.
But the battle is not over. When I watch Red Dawn, I am struck by the imagery. Invaders parachuting from the sky. How high school kids graduated from bolt and lever action to AKs. How in one moment, class was in session, and in the next, they are hard killers. And I think, it is only a movie, it can't happen here. Not in America. But it can.
What we are doing in Iraq is nothing short of the start of a world revolution, a revolution not of the people, but of the individual. Clearly, America has had enough, and we won't take lawlessness and corruption anymore. This is the start of a new world order. Not of socialism, or religous zeal, no, it is the century of the individual. That is the new world order.
Well, my THR brothers and sisters, I go back to Red Dawn for the poigniant finish. It is a good movie. Of course, the critics hated it. But I am with Ronnie on this one.
Wolverines!
Then I do something to feed my paranoia. I watch an old right wing jingoistic movie, with patriotic overtones, and all the symbolism of doom. Red Dawn. They say that it was Ronald Reagon's favorite movie. Indeed, for only his stubborn stoic and stiffed lipped resolve caused the fall of Communism. It fits.
But the battle is not over. When I watch Red Dawn, I am struck by the imagery. Invaders parachuting from the sky. How high school kids graduated from bolt and lever action to AKs. How in one moment, class was in session, and in the next, they are hard killers. And I think, it is only a movie, it can't happen here. Not in America. But it can.
What we are doing in Iraq is nothing short of the start of a world revolution, a revolution not of the people, but of the individual. Clearly, America has had enough, and we won't take lawlessness and corruption anymore. This is the start of a new world order. Not of socialism, or religous zeal, no, it is the century of the individual. That is the new world order.
Well, my THR brothers and sisters, I go back to Red Dawn for the poigniant finish. It is a good movie. Of course, the critics hated it. But I am with Ronnie on this one.
Wolverines!